He was the film father of the “Robinson Family,” who moved from the big city to the wilderness. Now US star Robert Logan has died at the age of 82.
US actor Robert Logan has died. Like his son Anthony on Wednesday, the Hollywood star died of natural causes on May 6 in Estero, Florida. Robert Logan was 82 years old. German audiences will remember him primarily as family man Skip Robinson. In three Hollywood films in the 70s, he and his film family moved from the big city to the wilderness. In doing so, Logan lived out the dream of happiness in simplicity for generations of dropouts.
From banker’s child to dropout star
Logan was born on May 29, 1941 in Brooklyn. One of seven children, he grew up in Los Angeles with his father Frank, a banker, and his mother Catherine. As a student, Logan received a baseball scholarship to the University of Arizona and caught the eye of a scout from the famous production company Warner Brothers. The result: Logan was cast in his first major role in the legendary ABC crime series “77 Sunset Strip.” For two seasons, from 1961 to 1963, he played the slang-speaking parking attendant JR Hale. However, the banker’s son Logan gained worldwide fame with the role of the dropout who turns his back on civilization.
Worldwide furore with films about “The Robinson Crusoe”
Away from the big city, out of the narrow confines and into the wild and unknown. Many people had this dream in the revolutionary 70s. And Logan lived the dream to the full – at least on the screen. In 1975, “The Adventures of the Robinson Family” reached millions of viewers worldwide. In it, Logan, as family father Skip Robinson, sells all his belongings and moves from Los Angeles into the unknown wilderness. On the edge of a lake, the family builds a log cabin and from then on lives the dropout dream: back to simplicity, back to the true values of life. The film hit the nerve of the times. In 1978 and 1979, two sequels followed about the adventures of the Robinsons, which also caused a sensation around the world and sparked dropout dreams.
“Embodiment of love for family”
Not only in film, but also in his private life, Logan upheld the values he upheld in his most famous films until the end. Logan’s own family describes the deceased actor as the “embodiment of agape”, the “love of family”. They feel “lucky and blessed to have met him”, said his relatives in a statement. Aside from the adventure films about “The Robinson Crusoe”, Logan is also known to German audiences from a more serious genre. In 1969 he appeared in the war film “The Bridge at Remagen”, not to be confused with the German production of the same name from 1967. In this film, Logan played an American soldier. Logan leaves behind four siblings, his wife Alina, two children and three granddaughters.
Source: Stern
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